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The Writer Writing : Philosophic Acts in Literature
by Francis-Noel Thomas, Wayne C. Booth.
In
an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts,
Francis-Nol Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine
a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing
is an action whose agent is an individual. Addressing both
general readers and scholars, Thomas offers two cases, Bernard
Shaw's Saint Joan and Marcel Proust's A la recherche
du temps perdu, read against the background of the authors'
large, eccentric, and surprisingly similar claims about
their texts as acts. He examines what happens when we take
these claims seriously enough to find out why the authors
made them in the first place and what bearing they have
on the texts themselves. In an age of authorless, contextless,
deconstructed texts, Francis-Nol Thomas argues that it is
time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of
literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual....
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Philosophical
Writing: An Introduction. by Aloysius
P. Martinich
This
is the substantially updated and revised edition of A. P.
Martinich´s best-selling text, Philosophical Writing: An
Introduction . Its goal is to help those with little or
no experience in philosophy to write successfully. By improving
students´ ability to present their knowledge and thoughts
clearly, it helps them gain confidence in their essay-writing
skills. This new edition includes three new sections on
Contraries and Contradictories, Distinctions, and Definitions,
as well as a glossary of those terms peculiar to philosophical
prose (such as "obtain" and "straw man").
The second edition also retains the highly-acclaimed commentary
on features of an essay, showing the evolution from draft
stage to completion of a good paper, a crash course on logic
and a clear description of types of reasoning. It also discusses
the special problem of being a student-author writing for
a professor.
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Writing
Philosophy Papers
by Zachary Seech
This
text covers the many kinds of writing assignments in philosophy
for which students are often ill-prepared. With this text
they will have the resources to learn necessary skills,
e.g., organization, documentation, how to write a thesis
defense or comparison and contrast paper.
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The writing
manual comes in a short version and a long version. The two
are basically the same, except that the long one has much,
much, more detail. The short version is keyed with links to
appropriate places in the long version, so that readers with
limited time can get more details if they really need them.
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By Peter
Zeegers. The University Study Skills Centre plays
an important role in the University's commitment to providing
an environment which will enable all students to achieve their
maximum academic potential.
Learning
development is available for:
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English for academic and professional purposes
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English language assistance for International and ESL
students
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Essay preparation/writing
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Evaluation of learning style/approach
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Exam preparation and techniques
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Mathematical skills for non-math majors
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Referencing formats
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Research proposals and reports
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Strategies for independent
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Essay by
W.
Martin Davies. This is an excellent list of things
to do and not to do when writing philosophy papers.
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Another
helpful guide by Richard Field.
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An excellent
guide for writing philosophy papers by Asst. Prof James Pryor,
Dept. of Philosophy at Harvard University. This guide
includes a guide
for grammar.
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By Istvan
Berkeley
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By Prof.
R. W. Hepburn. Much of the philosophy you are being
introduced to is argument—cases for and against philosophical
positions, theories, points of view. You are required, in
writing philosophy, to take part in that argument—not
merely to recount the arguments you find in texts and hear
in lectures. Of course, you will use some of the arguments
you find there (with acknowledgement), but you must critically
examine them—rejecting them or making them your own,
and giving your reasons. Your essay, then, has to be not a
piece of history of ideas, but a piece of reasoned, argued
discourse.
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A guide
explaining the use of philosophical terms, foreign expressions,
arguments, concepts, etc. for writing Philosophy papers.
By Asst. Prof James Pryor, Dept. of Philosophy at Harvard
University.
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By Peter
Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College.
How to first give a presentation and then lead discussion
on the topics of your presentation for the rest of the hour.
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This site
by I Lee offers quick click to Search Engines, Search Tools,
and other Research Guides. A virtual Library of useful URLs
including philosophy. How to write an A+ research paper, do
presentation, write footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical references
and bibliography using MLA style documentation. Numerous examples
given, including Internet citations.
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A collection
of introductory bibliographies on some of the major philosophical
questions throughout history.
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